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THE NEWS HACK'S CREED:
I know more than you.
I make lots more money than you.
I'm smarter than you.
I'm sexier than you.
I appear on TV all the time.
I work ten minutes a day.
I rule the universe.
I'm going to live forever.
You are an idiot.

THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 2:
A lie isn't a lie when it tells THE TRUTH.

THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 3:
I've come to realize that the looseness of the journalistic life, the seeming laxity of the newsroom, is an illusion. Yes, there's informality and there's humor, but beneath the surface lies something deadly serious. It is a code. Sometimes the code is not even written down, but it is deeply believed in. And, when violated, it is enforced with tribal ferocity.
--JOHN "OMERTA" CARROLL.

THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 4:
News isn't news when we don't report it.

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Friday, April 30, 2010

Posted 11:26 PM by Gene

Of course what's happened in the Gulf is awful -- not least for the loss of human life already, which we fear might take a back seat in news hacks' minds -- but we should remember as long as we must be automobile-mad and consumption-mad we'll have to power our vanity with that gooey sticky stuff from beneath the ground, and when we don't inspire environmental disasters we inspire jihadists.

And somehow we're not surprised BP was involved, and what with this and Libya (not to mention the Texas City explosion, which comes to the fore now) it has a monopoly on ignominy.

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